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First Aired On: October 15, 1999
Written By: Tor Alexander Valenza
Directed By: William Gereghty
Guest Stars: Megan Leitch (Kyra), Manya Delver (Leal), Jason Gray-Stanford (Orner/Nodal), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Janet Fraiser)
Synopsis: SG-1 steps through the Stargate into a warehouse (hey, at least it's not a Vancouver forest this time <g>). All of the equipment in the warehouse is covered and looks to have been long abandoned. Suddenly they hear voices outside and O'Neill motions to them to get down. A man and a woman enter, bickering, and O'Neill announces SG-1's presence. They introduce themselves, the man asks who would give Teal'c a name like that, and the man and woman are shocked to learn that SG-1 remembers. All the people on their planet apparently don't remember anything that happened to them before something called the Vorlex happened. O...kay.
SG-1 questions the man and woman further about their, um, situation. It seems that the elders of the planet suddenly disappeared, leaving all the middle-aged people alone in a failing society. There are no children either. As a matter of fact, the only reason they know this is because there are photographs of elders in people's houses. Unfortunately, industry (the civilization looks like it's in the midst of the Industrial Revolution) and agriculture were already on hard times before the Vorlex and now, if they can't remember who they are before winter comes, their planet (called Vias) won't survive. O'Neill asks who's in charge on Vias and they learn that besides the man and woman they're talking with, a woman named Kyra--a doctor and scientist--is also a leader. SG-1 asks to talk to her and find out what she knows.
So off they go to the hospital where Kyra is treating a woman suffering from anaphylactic shock. <On a sidenote, anyone else thinking the X-Files had a weird universe warp and invaded Stargate? First Megan Leitch a.k.a. Samantha Mulder shows up--blond, to top it off--and next there's a violent reaction to bees/food/whatever....ahem>. The woman Kyra's treating gets better and leaves, Kyra talks to SG-1 for a bit, learns that Daniel studies the past, and then shows them to an old library where she's been reading up on the past. Needless to say, Daniel is a welcome addition to her search for the "truth" <hee hee, couldn't help myself> about what happened to them. When she learns that they came through the Stargate, she recognizes the description from an old book written by an elder called Zurvis and reads a section of it for them. Zurvis described how a female visitor once came to their planet through the Stargate, a female visitor who just so happens to have the name...Linea. Holy Hannah! Linea's been here! Maybe she's the one behind the world-wide amnesia! (Don't remember Linea? She's the destroyer of worlds who SG-1 freed in "Prisoners.") However, SG-1 can rest assured that Linea died during the Vorlex because the body of an elderman and a woman matching Linea's description were found in a destroyed science lab.
Anyway, Dr. Fraiser arrives on Vias and is briefed by O'Neill. She agrees to set up a lab on the planet to examine the Vians. While she's busy doing that, Daniel and Kyra talk and he enjoys himself a bit too much (i.e. Daniel flirts and smiles). From what Kyra's been able to find, there's a possible connection between a chemical called Dargol and what happened to the Vians. Dargol, a pesticide similar to DDT, was banned many years ago because it was playing havoc with the environment. During their conversation he also explains who Linea is and why she's a "very very bad older lady." While Daniel and Kyra are talking, Carter reminds O'Neill that they're responsible for what happened to the people of Vias since they freed Linea from Hedante prison.
Next, Carter makes a discovery. As she's looking through some of the books on a shelf, she finds a small diary hidden underneath. She starts reading it and says that she's seen it before--it's a diary she remembers seeing Linea with. Before she can get into the text of the diary, though, Dr. Fraiser enters the library and says that their initial diagnosis was correct--this is a case of world-wide amnesia. Now, either she can set up a lab on Vias and have to commute back and forth to Earth for test results, or she can bring several volunteers back and examine them that way. Kyra agrees to come back to Earth, along with the man and woman SG-1 talked to at the beginning of the episode.
So away we go back to Earth. Fraiser runs her tests and finds a dark blue spot in each of their MRIs. Apparently, there's some kind of residue between the synapses in the Vians' brains that's making it impossible for them to remember anything. However, if they can manage to eliminate the residue, their memories should still be intact. There's hope that the people can be saved! Dr. Fraiser'll keep working on it, but until then Daniel agrees to give the visitors the "fifty-cent tour" of the SGC. We cut to Daniel concluding his tour with Kyra in her guest quarters. He shows her the room, they talk for awhile, then she starts coming on to him. He backs away and tells her that while he's very, very attracted to her, he just lost his wife and doesn't trust himself yet. She understands but kisses him. Afterwards, she explains that she had to do that just in case she gets her memory back and it turns out she's married to someone else. Daniel starts to say something in response, but instead just kisses her again. Ahem.
Elsewhere in the base, O'Neill has been called to Carter's office. She says she's been going through Linea's diary. From what she's read, it sounds like Linea found a connection between Dargol and longevity. It also sounds like Linea was performing an experiment on two elders to see if she could create a "fountain of youth" on humans using this Dargol. She had chosen two elders--a man and a woman--to test on. Maybe, just maybe, there was an unforeseen disaster with the test and the result was to make the entire population of Vias turn younger. In other words, the middle-aged people of Vias are the elders. A side effect might be that they lost their memories. Now, if the woman that Kyra had found in the destroyed lab was actually the female elder...that means that Linea could still be alive and SG-1 would never even know it! Of course, then Carter takes the natural next step (evoking an amusing "I can't hear you because I've put my hands over my ears and am saying La la la la la" reaction from O'Neill <g>) and suggests that Kyra might actually be Linea. Oops! Gee, do they have problems with this woman or what?
SG-1 holds a meeting with Hammond and Fraiser. Daniel doesn't want to believe that Kyra is Linea, but the DNA tests prove that they are one and the same person. He then argues that no, Kyra is not the same Linea. She is not the "Destroyer of Worlds; she's changed. After all, look at how Teal'c changed from being First Prime of Apophis to one of their dearest and most trusted friends. The others say yes, that's true, but they still can't completely trust her. What if she gets her memory back?
Daniel goes to talk to her and explain that she'll have to stay in her room for awhile. The extra guards outside her door are just standard safety precautions. Yeah, right. Back in the lab, Carter and Fraiser have been working all night to create a way to reverse the amnesia but haven't gotten anywhere...and it could take years before they could. The truth is, Kyra/Linea knows a lot more about Dargol and science than they do. If they want to save Vias, they're going to need her help. Hammond and O'Neill reluctantly agree and off Daniel goes (with Teal'c as an escort) to bring her to the science lab. Kyra helps them create a rough cure and wants to test it on herself first (saying she couldn't forgive herself if something were to happen to Orner, the man they brought with them) but SG-1 won't let her. They test it on Orner, his body goes into convulsions, he flat-lines then suddenly recovers, but the cure hasn't worked. Kyra wants to keep working on the cure but the others insist that they rest for awhile.
Kyra is getting very suspicious by this point as to why the others are being so cautious around her, and asks Daniel if they could talk alone for a few minutes. She says the others think she's Linea, don't they? Well, yes, actually they do because she is Linea. She can't believe she'd ever do such a thing and Daniel assures her that she's not the same person now. As he's leaving, he runs into O'Neill, who warns him that if Kyra/Linea gets her memory back, he'll be the first one to die. Daniel just ignores him.
So Carter and Fraiser keep continue working on a cure for the amnesia with Kyra/Linea and they come up with one she's sure will work. They tell Kyra that they'll handle the rest of the test from there and that Kyra should just go back to her room for now, but before Kyra goes, she takes a sample of the antidote with her. OOPS.
Once again, they test the antidote on Orner (poor man), he goes into convulsions, but voila, this time it works! He now remembers that his name is Nodal that he's been married to the other woman (named Leal) who came along with himself and Kyra to Earth. As for Kyra, he never met her before the Vorlex.
As Daniel's escorting Kyra back to her room, she asks what they're going to do with her. Well, she can probably go back to Vias if she doesn't take the antidote. The Vians, Daniel assures her, will be grateful for what she's done to help them. All of a sudden, she says the phrase "All debts have now been paid." WHOA. Did she just say what he thinks she did? Why, yes, she did. He rushes into her room and asks why if took the antidote; she says she had to know if what he had said about her being Linea was true. She holds up two bottles of chemicals that, if mixed, would release poison into the air--she wants to kill herself and tells Daniel to leave. He refuses to go, saying if she's going to kill herself, he's going to die with her. Now there's two people inside of her fighting for control--Kyra who hates what Linea wants to do, and Linea who would be very happy to see Daniel die with her. By this point the people in the infirmary have realized that the chemicals are missing and O'Neill and Teal'c run off to find Daniel and Kyra/Linea. She insists that she must die but Daniel says no, she has another option. She can forget.
Next we know, Kyra/Linea's memory has been erased once again. Daniel introduces her to the two Vians natives and they explain that she's a much-beloved leader on their planet. Kyra tells Daniel she gets the impression that they were once close; Daniel, in turn, says that they barely knew each other. Linea's memories are all gone and back she goes to Vias, leaving Daniel single once again on Earth.
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Related Episodes: This episode is a follow-up to "Prisoners."
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O'Neill, upon seeing the deserted warehouse: "Anybody get the feeling these folks don't do a lot of traveling?"Woman: "It was like an explosion, Orner. I heard...."
Orner: "There wasn't any explosion."
Woman: "I'm telling you, I heard something. It was big."
Orner: "A big what?"
O'Neill: "Hello! You heard us."
Orner: "Where did you come from? How'd you get in here?"
O'Neill: "Door was open. Is there anyone around here whom might be considered in charge?"
Orner: "Me. Show me your papers."
Daniel: "Well, we don't have any papers. We're travelers. We've come to meet you."
Orner: "To meet me?"
Woman: "Not you."
Daniel: "Actually, I meant your people I'm Daniel, this is Major Carter and Jack O'Neill and Teal'c."
Orner: "Who would give you a name like Teal'c?"
Teal'c: "It was given by my father. It means strength."
Woman: "You remember your father?"
Teal'c: "For as long as I draw breath."
Orner: "Then...you could have not been here at the time of the Vorlex."
Daniel: "Vorlex...that doesn't ring a bell."
Woman: "The day that all we know of ourselves was taken away."
Orner: "We can only remember the days since the Vorlex. Before that...nothing."Carter: "Well, still don't detect anything out of the ordinary, Sir. Neither does the MALP. Things are okay."
O'Neill: "Well the MALP is worthless. You I'll trust."Orner: "All of our elders are missing as well."
O'Neill: "You remember elders?"
Orner: "No, but there are photographs of them in every house."
Woman: "The children are gone too."
Orner: "If we ever had children."
Woman: "Well, we weren't grown on trees, we came from somewhere."
Orner: "Then why have we only photographs of the elders and not of the children? Answer me that." He turns back to SG-1. "Daft."O'Neill, about Kyra and her many jobs: "Busy gal."
Woman: "We are all busy."
Orner: "We would be lost without her and you know it."
Woman: "You needn't flatter the woman when she isn't even in the room."
Orner: "I'll take them. You go home."
Woman, ticked: "Well don't expect supper!"Daniel: "So, I'm guessing you were or are a doctor?"
Kyra: "It seems to me that before the Vorlex I helped others. That is all that I sense. Are you?"
Daniel: "A doctor? No. Ah, well, yes. I'm a doctor of archaeology. I study the past."
Kyra, a little too friendly: "Then you are a most welcome visitor here, Daniel."Kyra: "You're not from Vias."
O'Neill: "What gave us away?"O'Neill, to Fraiser who's just arrived on Vias: "What's your name?"
Daniel: "I keep finding references to something called Dargol."
Kyra: "Yes, I found Dargol was a chemical once used as a pesticide. It seems to have had a significant impact on the environment and has since been banned."
Daniel: "Yes, we had a similar problem on my planet with a chemical called DDT. It built up in the food chain until entire species were threatened."
Kyra: "Yes, I first believed this Dargol was related to our loss of memory much the same way but there's little evidence of it. I found residue only in the bodies of those who have died since the Vorlex."
Daniel, when Kyra falls silent after finding a photograph of an older man: "What?"
Kyra: "Well, sometimes the images of people in the archive look familiar to me. I wonder if I knew this person or that person. There's still so many questions. Why are there no images of children? Where have our elders gone? ...Through your Stargate, perhaps."
Daniel: "Well, I suppose it's possible that your people foresaw a disaster coming and sent the most helpless to safety."
Kyra: "But whatever happened happened quickly with no warning."
Daniel: "How do you know that...?" He catches her drift and starts smiling...flirting...whatever. "Because if you saw disaster coming, you would've left yourselves a note." His smile broadens...this guy is clearly enjoying being single again. "Sort of a 'To Whom It May Concern' sort of thing."Carter: "Sir?"
O'Neill: "Oh, I was just thinking about amnesia. It doesn't quite track with Linea's nickname."
Teal'c: "The Destroyer of Worlds."
O'Neill: "Yeah, that one."
Carter: "Well, actually, in sort of a sick way, it does. I mean, Kyra said herself their civilization was on the verge of collapse despite their best efforts. This world's in trouble, Sir."
Teal'c: "Perhaps Linea was experimenting with new ways to destroy worlds."
O'Neill: "Variety being the spice of life and all."
Carter: "And the fact is, Sir, we let Linea out of Hedante prison. We gave her everything she needed to know about the network of Stargates to go anywhere she wanted."
O'Neill: "I know."
Carter: "We're responsible, Sir."
O'Neill: "I know."Kyra: "Tell me of Linea."
Daniel: "We met her on another planet on which we were imprisoned unjustly and Linea helped us escape."
Kyra: "Well surely there is nothing wrong with that if you were imprisoned unjustly."
Daniel: "Well, she was imprisoned justly. It was only after we escaped that we learned that this nice older lady we thought Linea was was actually a very...very bad older lady that had committed crimes."Orner, after stepping through the Stargate: "Am I in one piece?"
Woman: "Yes, Orner, one skinny little piece."Hammond: "Colonel, what if Dr. Fraiser is unable to reverse whatever caused this?"
O'Neill, fully aware of the irony of his words and shooting Hammond a crafty grin to prove it: "I don't know."Kyra: "Your complex is incredible, Daniel, your technology.... I've never dreamed of such marvels, thank you."
Daniel: "You're welcome."
Kyra: "Is it morning or night on the surface? May we see for ourselves?"
Daniel: "Ah, no, not yet. Soon, though."
Kyra: "I hope so."
Daniel, leading her into the guestroom: "So, this is it. Ah, it's not much of a view, but it's got all the comforts of...."
Kyra: "You've been very kind. Thank you."
Daniel, becoming a bit uncomfortable with her advances: "So there are your clothes in the dresser...."
Kyra: "Is my clothing not acceptable?"
Daniel, now very uncomfortable: "No! No, no, no, no, no, it's...no, it's fine. It's...are you hungry? I can...I can have them send something down. You're hungry, I'm hungry, I'm going to have them send something down." She's backed him up against a wall." Are you...do you want something?"
Kyra: "Yes."
Daniel: "Right."
Kyra: "Since the Vorlex, closed contact has become almost taboo. We were afraid if we ever to regain our memories...."
Daniel: "...you would find yourself waking up beside the wrong person."
Kyra: "But you are not from Vias."
Daniel, completely uncomfortable: "No. I'm not from there, Vias, um, no. Kyra...."
Kyra: "I understand." She turns away, but Daniel grabs her shoulder.
Daniel: "No, you don't. I'm mean, I'm, um, okay, I'm finding myself very, very, very....but, um, the fact is I've only just recently lost my wife. And, uh, well, that's not actually totally true, I actually lost her a long time ago, but the fact is right now I don't think I'd trust myself to uh...." She kisses him.
Kyra: "I'm sorry, I interrupted you."
Daniel: "No, you didn't. I, uh, I wasn't going to say anything...."
Kyra: "I had to do that. I had to do that in case when my memory returns I find myself attached to someone else and am unable to ever do it again."
Daniel: "Right. I understand. That's probably why I should do this." He kisses her.O'Neill: "You were looking for me?"
Carter: "Yes, Sir. I've been studying Linea's journals. Apparently, she found a link between Dargol--it's a chemical pesticide the Vians use--and longevity."
O'Neill: "What does a bug spray have to do with longevity?"
Carter: "Well, it seems it was having the effect of slowing the aging process. Not in an extreme way but certainly significant enough."
O'Neill: "Lucky bugs."
Carter: "Yes and no. They stopped using it over twenty years ago. It was adversely affecting their fertility rate."
O'Neill: "So no kids."
Carter: "Right. The point is, Linea was trying to enhance the life extending properties of Dargol to create a sort of fountain of youth."
O'Neill: "She was trying to make herself young again?"
Carter: "According to her last entry, Linea was about to conduct some controlled lab experiments using a concentrated for of Dargol on two Vian elders, a male and a female."
O'Neill: "And...?"
Carter: "And that's where her journal ends."
O'Neill: "Ah. The Vorlex, perhaps?"
Carter: "Exactly. Now, what if there really was a laboratory accident? Some massive chain of enhanced Dargol gas that caught even Linea by surprise? The entire population becomes young again overnight. You realize, of course, the implication."
O'Neill, nodding his head: "No."
Carter: "Ah, their elders aren't missing, Sir. They are the elders. The fountain of youth worked. The amnesia was simply a side-effect Linea didn't see coming."
O'Neill: "Wait a minute. Linea is dead, right?"
Carter: "Well...if those two bodies that Kyra found really were the Vian elders that Linea was experimenting on...."
O'Neill: "Don't say it, Carter."
Carter: "Sir, we wouldn't recognize her even if she walked in the front door."
O'Neill: "Don't, ah, ah...." He puts his hands to his ears. "La la la la la la!"
Carter: "Sir, she has the knowledge of chemistry, the medical skills...." She grabs O'Neill's hands and removes them from his ears. "I think we have to at least face the possibility that Kyra is Linea."Daniel: "Let me ask you a question. Who would you trust with your life more than anyone else in the world? Don't worry, I won't be offended if you don't pick me. Could it be Teal'c?"
O'Neill: "Sure."
Daniel: "Ah, Teal'c, refresh my memory. What was your previous occupation?"
Teal'c: "I was First Prime of Apophis."
Daniel: "Right. Did a few nasty things back then?"
O'Neill: "We see the subtle point you're trying to make."
Daniel: "No, you don't. She is not the same person. She is not who she used to be. Let's not condemn her for who she used to be in the past."O'Neill, entering the lab to find Carter and Fraiser looking rather tired and unhappy: "Oh, my. There is a distinct lack of optimism in this room."
O'Neill: "Excuse me! Amnesia check." He makes the quote signs with his hands. "'Destroyer of Worlds'?"
O'Neill: "Hey. Heard the test didn't go too well."
Daniel: "She'll figure it out."
O'Neill: "Listen, I’m not saying the first woman you've fallen for since Sha're isn't a peach, but if she remembers who she is, you'll be the first to go." Daniel just ignores him.Kyra: "What will be done with me?"
Daniel: "Well, if you don't take the antidote, I see no reason why you can't go back to Vias. I intend to ask them."
Kyra: "They will fear me."
Daniel: "For all that you've done for them, they'll be grateful."
Kyra: "All debts have now been paid."
Daniel, knowing something's wrong but not recognizing it yet: "I'll come back once I've had the chance to speak with your people."
Kyra: "I shall miss you, Daniel." He turns and starts walking away, then it hits him and he runs into her room.
Daniel: "You've taken the antidote."
Kyra: "Leave, Daniel."
Daniel: "You said 'All debts have now been paid.' That was the message Linea left behind."
Kyra: "Was it?"
Daniel: "Did you take the antidote?"
Kyra: "I had to know, Daniel. I didn't believe you."
Daniel: "Kyra...."
Kyra: "I'm not Kyra, am I? I am the murder that you said I was."
Daniel: "No, you're not."
Kyra: "I need only smash these bottles together to create a poisonous gas that will fill this room. Now, I only want to harm myself. I don't want you to be here, please."Kyra: "I deserve to die."
Daniel: "I don't believe that."
Kyra: "You don't understand! There's a part of me that cares for you, Daniel, more than I've cared for anyone I've ever known. But there is this other part of me that would gladly watch you die!"
O'Neill, stepping into the room with his gun raised: "Step aside, Daniel."
Daniel: "Don't! There's another way, Jack."
O'Neill: "Move!"
Daniel, not moving: "Give me the vials, Kyra, you don't need to do this."
Kyra: "There are two people inside of me, and one of them is a monster. In time, she will win!"
Daniel: "You won't hurt me, because there is another way, Kyra."
Kyra: "I'm not her!!!"
Daniel: "No, you're not, but you can be her again. You can forget. All you have to do is forget."Kyra: "Do you know me?"
Orner: "We do, Kyra, and we understand that you've lost your memory. Know that you are a great leader of our people and you are most welcome."
Kyra, to Daniel: "I sense we knew each other well before my memory was lost. Did we?"
Daniel: "No. No, we never really did. Goodbye, Kyra."
Kyra: "Goodbye."
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